Bibliotheque ideale des pierres, plantes et paysages
by Laure De Chantal, introduction by Laure De Chantal
Paperback (Published)
(November 2024)
ISBN: 9782251455938
5 x 7.56 inches
Price: $39.00
On back order
We, who are now seeking to “reconnect” with nature, would have everything to gain from observing the environment with the eyes of the ancients, seeing their enchanted, unpolluted, unconquered and unknown world, in order to reconsider our own with new eyes. To admire the world with the eyes of Ovid, Hesiod or Virgil is to stop believing ourselves “as masters and possessors of nature” (Descartes) in order to renew the organic bond that unites us to it. However, far from praising a dusty past with the allure of a lost paradise, the hundred or so extracts in this work also show us that if the Greeks and the Romans invented the genres of the idyll and the bucolic, it was they who were also the sorcerer’s apprentices of the excessive exploitation of the earth’s resources. From the navel of the world to the cycle of the seasons, from Niobe transformed into stone to the atoms of Lucretia, from the sumptuous islands of Circe and Calypso to the tragic deforestation of Attica during the Peloponnesian War, famous or rare, these translated and commented texts invite you to breathe the green air of Antiquity, offering a broad panorama of the greatest authors, from the great Homeric epic to the mysterious Alchemists.
- By (author) Laure de Chantal
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